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Graham Cunning Campbell Dallas has expanded its corporate finance team after recording a record number of deals and a marked rise in fee income during the last 12 months.

Grant Thornton has revealed the names of this year’s ‘Faces of a Vibrant Economy’ – identifying progressive UK leaders from across business, culture and civic society.

Matt Strachan, chief investment officer at Thorntons Investments Thorntons Investments celebrated a double success at the Growth Investors 2018 Awards at the Royal Lancaster in London this week.

Ahead of their annual conference Scotland’s leading Health and Safety Charity Scottish Hazards has today released a major new piece of research into the huge extent of workplace stress in the nation's public sector.

Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, HSBC UK, Lloyds Banking Group, and Santander have teamed-up with financial technology firms to craft a set of guidelines designed to improve engagement between fintech startups and established financial institutions.

Newly published figures have revealed that private sector pension contributions are falling to minimum automatic enrolment levels, from a recent contribution high of 9.7 per cent of salary in 20122 to just 3.4 per cent in 2017 – with 1.2 per cent from the employee and 2.1 per cent from the employ

Andrew Mackintosh-Walker Close Brothers Asset Management (CBAM) has strengthened its proposition in Scotland with the hire of two new managing directors.

Royal Bank of Scotland has joined HSBC, Santander and Consumr Finance in a £10 million funding round in Wales-based Vizolution, a software-as-a-service company that helps institutions replace face-to-face interactions with remote channels.

Gareth Magee Gareth Magee, a partner at accountants Scott-Moncrieff, assesses the implications of incoming new Senior Managers and Certification Regime

Vince Smith-Hughes Advisers are increasing support for vulnerable clients and staff helping them as the sector responds to the growth in inquiries about later life advice, exclusive adviser research from Prudential shows.

Douglas Flint Sir Douglas Flint, the Glaswegian former chairman of banking giant HSBC has been announced as the next chairman Edinburgh-based financial giant Standard Life Aberdeen.

Alasdair Ronald Investors have long debated the effect that the shorter days and cold weather have on markets and now new analysis from wealth manager Brewin Dolphin has suggested that it tends to be a positive time for share indices.

Matt Strachan Thorntons Investments’ AIM IHT Portfolio Service has been shortlisted for three major industry awards.

The Government is being urged to freeze Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) at the forthcoming Budget, after HMRC figures revealed that taxpayers are now paying record amounts of the tax.

Rodney Whyte By Rodney Whyte, Partner and property and planning specialist at legal firm Pinsent Masons